About Us

The Pragmatic Studio is where top developers have come since 2005 to learn
relevant skills, master new tools, and continually improve their craft. In
our acclaimed courses, you get the most up-to-date and approachable
developer training around!

Building and delivering a real application requires learning more than
syntax, libraries, and APIs. But to effectively craft a high-quality
application, you also need to know where to start your project, what makes
a good design, and how to adjust when requirements change. So that's the
approach we take in our project-driven courses where you'll learn how to
confidently build apps with the right tools and the right
techniques.

Here are a few things you might like to know about us, our approach
to training, and why we call it The Pragmatic Studio:

We're a small hyper-focused company, privately-owned and operated by
Mike and Nicole Clark.

We got started in 2005 by offering
the first-ever public Ruby on Rails course. Alumni of that course are
highly-regarded "Golden Spike Members".

We believe that learning a new skill or language or tool is good, but
being able to actually apply that new skill to a real-world
need is far more gratifying.

Our courses are unique because they're taught by programmers who have
spent significant time in the trenches on real-world
projects figuring out what works and what
doesn't.

Equally important, each of our instructors has the distinct
ability to clearly and effectively teach what they
know.

We believe real learning happens when you build real
applications in a real development environment. That's why
our courses are project-driven and you complete the exercises on your
own computer.

As a small company without a lot of distractions or overhead, we're
able to focus on what's important: creating
high-quality courses, delivering exceptional customer service, and
building long-term relationships with our students.

We specialize in teaching a small set of topics that
we know really well, use regularly, and that make us happy!

We bootstrapped the business from personal savings
and a lot of sweat equity (hard work!). We've always been free from
the constraints of debt and VC funding.